ABSTRACT
This collection of interdisciplinary chapters seeks to explore the human capacity for experience. The authors address the postmodern debate in contemporary psychotherapy and psychoanalysis through clinical case discussion and theoretical exegesis. They elaborate new perspectives on the embodied self and its role in communicative and therapeutic contexts and reconsider such basic experiences as agency, authenticity, freedom, and choice. In the process, the authors develop a constructive critique of postmodernism and present a view of the person as an active, responsible, embodied being. In the present intellectual climate, so dominated by medical psychology on the one hand and postmodernism on the other, this book provides a way to retrieve the personal and offers an approach for understanding psychological agency in the clinical setting.
